1H policy credit up 11.6%

Total policy credit in the first half of this year reached more than VND286 trillion ($12.25 billion), an 11.6 per cent increase year-on-year, according to Mr. Duong Quyet Thang, General Director of the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies. As of June 30, the bank had disbursed nearly VND9 trillion ($385.26 million) in a package of more than VND38 trillion ($1.63 billion) of policy credit to recover the economy.